Genesis
The 2025 national count puts Genesis at #66, as settled as a name gets. Modern by the data's own clock (1964 is its first appearance), at 93,578 bearers so far.
Genesis’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Genesis, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Genesis since 1964
Genesis peaked in 2016 at #58; #66 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Genesis is most common
Genesis is most common in District of Columbia: 0.64% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. Delaware (0.62%) and Maryland (0.48%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Genesis
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Gabriella
#105 in 2025 · Hebrew
Giovanni
#123 in 2025 · Hebrew
Madelyn
#71 in 2025
Ezekiel
#61 in 2025 · Hebrew
Leilani
#60 in 2025
Emery
#74 in 2025 · Teutonic
Everett
#77 in 2025
Liliana
#78 in 2025
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About Genesis
How popular is the name Genesis?
The 2025 national count puts Genesis at #66, as settled as a name gets. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1964.
What is the recorded meaning of Genesis?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Genesis keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Is there a sibling name for Genesis?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Gabriella, Giovanni and Madelyn, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Genesis’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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